Overview

• The trial opened June 5 at the Old Bailey with prosecutor William Emlyn Jones KC describing a premeditated attack during a botched robbery.
• Antonis Antoniadis, 26, was followed from the 32 Portland Place nightclub in Marylebone to a friend’s address in New Cross before being set upon by four hooded figures.
• He struck one attacker with a brandy bottle but suffered fatal chest and thigh wounds, including a severed femoral artery causing catastrophic blood loss.
• Defendants Shian Johnson, Sofian Alliche, Joshua McCorquodale, Alfie Hipple and a 17-year-old youth face charges of murder and conspiracy to rob.
• All five deny the allegations as the six-week trial continues with detailed witness accounts and CCTV evidence of a stolen getaway car.